International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies(IJHAS)

Nino Tabeshadze PhD in Culture, Professor of Georgian Insttitute of Public Affairs (GIPA), Invited Professor at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.  ABSTRACT  A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have’ – these words of Abraham Lincoln can easily be applied to the position of Georgian Policy-makers of such post-soviet country as Georgia. Georgian policymakers actively started to search for friends by creating the image of ‘shared enemy’, especially in 2009- 2012. This shared enemy was the Soviet Union. States united in Soviet Union should have higher solidarity towards each other than the others. This became clearly seen during the August War 2008 when Georgian politicians underlined the influence of Soviet Union stating that opposing country could not overcome the memory of past glory. It is not the secret, that the policy-makers have big impact on society. Especially on the society which was traumatized by the war. For Georgian community politi...

Abdullahi Suleiman Otiwe Undergraduate; Faculty of Law, Kogi State University, Anyigba, Nigeria  ABSTRACT  This work investigates the constitutionality of the power for the creation of new Local Government Areas under the 1999 Constitution in Nigeria. It posits that the purpose of the grant of such power as “quasiexclusive legislative preserve” to the State is to enable the Local Communities have ease opportunity to push home the demand for the local authorities of their choice as one of the cardinal principles of Federalism. The work equally examines the constitutional basis of the National Assembly in making Consequential Provisions as assent to the constitutional exercise of the power vested in the State and how the National Assembly has exercised this power to veto the valid law of the State. This is what brought the principle of Inchoate in the Supreme Court decided case exposing the obstacle to the creation of new local government areas under the constitution ...

Muchammad Bayu Tejo Sampurno Performance Arts Studies, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia  ABSTRACT  Art is one of medium for children to play, with their surroundings with imagination. Art is also a medium of understanding, to help children understand the concepts that are not yet known. with various arguments began to realize the importance of the arts for children, but they do not understand what they need to support his artistic abilities. Artwork created by children classified as special. That is because the children's artwork there are values which constitute the essence and the nature of art itself. From children's artwork, can be taken the science that is important for human beings, namely regarding the personal creative who is not afraid to experiment because the child doesn't pay attention to the existence of factors which often become a problem for adults.  KEYWORDS  Learning, Art, Painting, Children More Details  : http://airccs...

Zsolt-Szilveszter Sandu1 and Narek Sukiasyan2 1Department of European Studies and Governance, Babeș-Bolyai University, ClujNapoca, Romania 2 Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania  ABSTRACT  The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the overpopulation issue of India and propose recommendations on how to overcome it. First, the paper summarizes the crucial demographic conditions and where India stands by numbers. Then the article presents the development of the state approach to the issue starting from the early years of independence up to the current policies. It does so by scrutinizing its cultural, economic and social factors and implications of overpopulation and identifies socio-economic backwardness, early marriages and family norms, lack of adequate health care infrastructure and education as the correlated and interdependent features supporting the trend of overpopulation. The authors come up with three recommendations...

Sayyed Ali Mirenayat1 and Elaheh Soofastaei2 Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia1, 2  ABSTRACT  This paper demonstrates the question of utopia and dystopia, the issues of human conflicts with technology, deterioration of society and nature vis-à-vis fanciful technological worlds, dystopian dominance of technology over humans, and searching for redemption in Philip K. Dick’s novels. It also says about disadvantages of mechanization of life and high-technology as a disastrous advancement which leads to dystopian world. Technology is known as a double-edged sword and human usually thinks about the beneficial and utopia-making edge of it, but Dick’s novels show his fears of war, social failure, emerging of military technology and political struggles; and he portrays turning of life which is looking for a utopia into a dystopia on the other edge of this sword.  KEY WORDS  Utopia, Dystopia, Science and Technology, Futu...